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Xuefei Yang
12+ albums
classical guitarClassicalguitarchineseinstrumental
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Early years: Yang began playing the guitar at the age of seven, and began formal tuition when she was ten, studying under the famous guitarist Chen Zhi, later Chairman of the China Classical Guitar Society. Her public debut was at the First China International Guitar Festival where she met immediate acclaim. At the same time, she was presented with her first foreign guitar (a "Pepe" children's guitar from Aria), by the celebrated Japanese guitar maker Masaru Kohno. She went on to win second prize at the Beijing Senior Guitar competition being the only child competitor, aged eleven. As a school girl, Yang rapidly gained an international reputation, playing extensively in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Spain, and Australia, and giving concert tours in Taiwan, Japan and Portugal. At twelve years of age she played in Tokyo for the first time and was given a special award by the Guitar Alliance of Japan; this time Masaru Kohno took Yang to his studio and let her have her pick of his world-renowned concert guitars. She was to play this Kohno guitar made of cedar and jacaranda regularly over the next five years. When she debuted in Madrid at 14, the composer Joaquín Rodrigo was in the audience, and in 1995 after John Williams heard her play in Beijing he left his Smallman guitar for a friend to bring back for Yang after his concert in Hong Kong. Further education: After completing her secondary schooling, Yang went on to complete her studies in Beijing, becoming the first guitarist to
